{"product_id":"tropic-thunder-dvd-2008-region-2-new-sealed","title":"Tropic Thunder [DVD] [2008] [Region 2] - New Sealed","description":"\u003cp\u003eProduct Description\n\n\nA pampered actor and his co-stars become part of a real war in a Southeast Asian jungle.\n\n\nFrom Amazon.co.uk\n\n\nIt's not really a knock to say that nothing in\nTropic Thunder is funnier than its first five minutes, so sly that--especially for people watching in theaters--you don't realise right away they are the opening minutes of the movie. This outrageous comedy begins with a series of fake previews, each introducing one of the main characters in the film-proper (not that there's anything proper about this film) and each bearing the familiar logo of a different motion picture studio: Universal, DreamWorks SKG, et al. Such playing fast and loose with corporate talismans verges on sacrilege, but it's an index of how much le tout Tinseltown endorses the movie as a demented valentine to itself. The premise is that the cast of a would-be \"Son of Rambo\" movie shooting in some Southeast Asian jungle get into a real shooting war with drug-smuggling montagnards. Don't ask--though the movie does have an answer--why such highly paid, usually ultra-pampered personnel as superhero Tugg Speedman (Ben Stiller), Mozart of fart comedy Jeff Portnoy (Jack Black), hip-hop artist Alpa Chino (Brandon T. Jackson), and five-time Oscar-winner Kirk Lazarus from Aus-try-leeah (Robert Downey Jr.) should be running through the jungle unattended and very vulnerable. It matters only that the real-life cast has a high time kidding their own profession and flexing their comedic muscles. Bonus points go to Stiller for co-writing the script (with Justin Theroux) and directing, and to Downey, brilliant as a white actor surgically turned black actor for his role and utterly committed to staying in character no matter what (\"I don't drop character till I done the DVD commentary\"). Be warned: The movie, too, is committed--to being an equal-opportunity offender. Its political incorrectness extends not only to Lazarus's black-like-me posturing but also Speedman's recent, Sean Pennstyle Oscar bid playing a cognitively challenged farmboy--or, in Lazarus's deathless phrase, \"going the full retard.\" Others in the cast include Steve Coogan as a director out of his depth, Nick Nolte as the Viet-vet novelist whose book inspired the film-within-the-film, Matthew McConaughey as Speedman's sun-blissed agent back home, and Tom Cruise--bald, fat-suited, and profane--as an epically repulsive studio head. Two hours running time is a mite excessive, but otherwise, what's not to like? --\nRichard T. Jameson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFEATURES\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"replacement-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eAnother high quality item sold by Attic Discovery Shop. All our items are listed with great care. We take pride in offering accurate listings, so that buyers receive what is expected and this is reflected in our reviews.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"list-style-type: disc; padding-left: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003eAll new products are guaranteed to be factory sealed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"margin-left: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; background-color: #ffffff;\"\u003ePre-owned media is clearly listed as used, meticulously inspected, and refurbished when necessary using our state-of-the-art disc cleaning equipment, ensuring discs are in top condition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"DreamWorks Live Action","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54935409131906,"sku":"S59130806","price":4.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0268\/7339\/7443\/files\/817ZoHodm3L.jpg?v=1737992294","url":"https:\/\/atticdiscoveryshop.co.uk\/products\/tropic-thunder-dvd-2008-region-2-new-sealed","provider":"Attic Discovery Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}